Non-refillable bottle.



P. BLACK. NON-REPILLABLB BOTTLE. APPLICATION FILED JUNE 7, 1912.

' 1,040,858. Patented 001;. 8, 1912.

.30 tion 2 for the cork, a barrel-shaped section -UNITEDSTATESPATENT OFFICE.

FERDINAND BLACK, or, NEW ORLEANS,

HUNDREDTHS re quire L'Encn,

LOUISIANA, AS SIGNOR 0F THIRTY OF EW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA.

' NON-REFILLAIQL'E BOTTLE.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Oct, 8, 1912,

Application flled J'une7, 1912. Serial No. 702,313.

To an whom'it may concern. Q If Be'it known that'I, FERDINAND l 31 AoK, a citizen ofthe United, States, residing at New Orleans, in the parish of Orleans and State of Louisiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements IILNOIl-RG- fillable'Bottles; and I do hereby declare the' 'following to be a fulhclear, and exact description of theinvention, such as will enable others skilledin the art to which it ap about to be inserted, in-theneck of a bottle. Fig. 3 shows a section along the line 3 -3 of Fig. 1, and looking in the direction of the arrows. 1 represents the bodyof the bottle, provided'wi'th a'neck composed, of a short sec- 3, adapted to receive the lock, and a short cylindrical section 4 at the top of the neck. The neck is reduced in thickness, as at 5, so that it may be readily broken off by hand..

The bottlc is filled in the ordinary way, and then the cork .6 is inserted, engaging in the portion 2 of the neck. Then the bent wire 7 is inserted in the hollowportion 8 of the plug 9, with the end 7 of said wire projectinginto the hole 10,in said plu 9. The second plug 11 is slidably mounte in the hollow ortion 8 of the plug 9, a-ndis provided with a groove 12, adapted to receive the long arm of the bent wire 7 The two plugs 9, 11, and the wire 7 constitute 'Fig. 2, and'then by shoving down on the plug 9, until the parts attain theposition wire 7 is caused to project 'out through the hole 10, into the inside of the barrelshaped portion 3 of the neck; and thus an efiective lock, preventing the cork from bein removed without breaking the .neck'o? the bottle, is provided. 7

scribed device, and in the construction, combination, and arrangement of parts, which could be used without departing from the spirit of my invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is 1. non-refillable bottle, comprising a neck avin'g' the lower portion adapted to ate portion, a lock consisting of a hollow plug perforated at one side, a slotted plug a bent wire mounted partly in said slot, and having a short arm projecting through said perforation in the outer plug, substantially as described.

2. A non-refillable bottle, comprising a neck having the lower portion adapted to FERDINAND. BLACK.

Witnesses 7 Guns, G, GILL,

Soornnou DUVAL.

"a'lock. They are assembled as shown in shownin Fig. 1, the shortarm 7 of the bent receive the cork, a barrel-shaped intermediadapted to slide into said hollow plug, and

t It will be obvious that various modifiestions might be made in the herein dereceive the cork, a barrel shaped intermedi- Copies 0! this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patunh,

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